A Case of Rat-Bite Fever
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Uicer in an unhealthy state with a good deal of inflammatory infilteration' of the surrounding tissues. He told me how six months previously he had been bitten by a bandicoot and further added that he was getting irregular fever now and then, and that he felt very weak. I too noticed a change in his constitution. As I myself was ignorant of the characteristic symptoms that develop in a rat-bite case then, I could not help hiin much in the way of treatment. However, I a-ked him to have complete rest and proper treatment for the ulcer and to take some tonics for the general improvement of his health.
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